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Doctoral Researcher

M. Sc. Vanessa Clemens

Phone   +49-221-470-76763

E-mailvanessa.clemens(at)uni-koeln(dot)de
AddressRichard-Strauss-Str.2, 50931 Köln | Germany

Room 2.A03
Office hours by appointment

Research interests

intercultural psychology • cooperation • stereotypes and discrimination • judgment and decision-making • decisions under risk • behavioral economics • open science

Publications

  • Clemens, V., Orifici, M. C., Froehlich, L., Glöckner, A., & Dorrough, A. R. (2025). Beyond ingroup favoritism: Investigating cross-national social preferences across 25 nations. PNAS nexus, 4(11), pgaf343.

Academic distinctions

  • Best Student Presentation Runner-up, International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Leiden University, 2024
  • Travel Grant for the presentation at the International Conference on Social Dilemmas, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 2024
  • Research Grant The role of institutions in closeness-based favoring behavior together with Asst. Prof. Dr. G. Spadaro and Prof. Dr. A. Glöckner, awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2023
  • Research Grant Underlying dimensions of intercultural differences together with Dr. F. Speckmann and M. Orifici, awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2023
  • Recipient of the Master Thesis Award, Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, 2023
  • Travel Grant for a Research stay at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL, hosted by Dr. Giuliana Spadaro, awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2022
  • Grant Climate change and human cooperation: An experimental cross-country analysis together with Prof. Dr. Nancy Buchan, Dr. Angela Dorrough, Dr. Gianluca Grimalda and Federica Raiti, awarded by University of South Carolina - Center for International Business, Education and Research (CIBER), 2022
  • C-SEB Student Grant Cumulative Prospect Theory and Psychological Distance: Self-Other Differences in Decision-Making Involving Risk, awarded by C-SEB, University of Cologne, 2022
  • National Scholarship Program, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, 2018-2022
  • Fulbright Travel Scholarship, 2017
  • Program Enhancing German Student’s Mobility (PROMOS) Scholarship, 2017